We
specialize
in
the
theory
and
practice
of
informal
education,
social
pedagogy,
lifelong
learning,
social
action,
and
community
learning
and
development.

Key
concepts
and
theories
in
education,
learning,
and
community.
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for
a
full
listing
of
articles.

Featured:
what
is
community
development?
The
idea
of
community
development
grew,
in
large
part,
out
of
the
activities
of
colonial
administrators.
We
examine
this
legacy
and
the
theory
and
practice
that
emerged.
We
also
look
to
the
body
of
overlapping
ideas,
including
community
participation,
community
organization
and
community
work.
In
this
piece
we
suggest
that
community
development
is
perhaps
best
used
to
describe
those
approaches
which
use
a
mix
of
informal
education,
collective
action
and
organizational
development
and
focus
on
cultivating
social
justice,
mutual
aid,
local
networks
and
communal
coherence.

Featured:
caring
in
education.
In
this
article
Nel
Noddings
explores
the
nature
of
caring
relations
and
encounters
in
education
and
some
of
the
difficulties
educators
have
with
them.
She
also
looks
at
caring
relations
as
the
foundation
for
pedagogical
activity.

Exploring
thinkers
and
innovators
central
to
the
development
of
the
theory
and
practice
of
lifelong
learning,
social
action,
pedagogy
and
informal
education.
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for
a
full
listing
of
articles.

Featured:
bell
hooks
on
education.
Barry
Burke
assesses
the
contribution
that
bell
hooks
has
made
to
thinking
about
education
and
sets
this
within
the
context
of
her
biography
and
work.

Featured
John
Ruskin
on
education.
John
Ruskin
altered
the
way
we
look
at
art
and
architecture,
and
was
an
influential
social
critic
and
advocate
of
economic
change
and
reform.
His
desire
to
advance
reform
and
to
deepen
people’s
appreciation
of
art
inevitably
brought
him
to
teaching
and
to
education.
His
work
was
to
have
lasting
significance.
But
what
did
Ruskin
advocate?
What
was
special
about
his
approach?
Sara
E.
Atwood
explores
his
contribution.

Updated:
Extended
schools
and
services:
theory,
practice
and
issues.
In
an
attempt
to
emulate
full-service
schooling
initiatives
in
the
USA
an
English
scheme
looked
to
develop
extended
schools
providing
a
range
of
activities
and
services
often
beyond
the
school
day,
‘to
help
meet
the
needs
of
its
pupils,
their
families
and
the
wider
community’.
We
explore
the
reality
–
the
theory
and
practice
–
and
the
issues
around
extended
schooling
and
services.

Featured:
Octavia
Hill
–
Space
for
the
people.
This
article
by
Octavia
Hill,
included
in
Homes
of
the
London
Poor
(1883),
outlines
her
case
for
the
need
for
all
people
to
be
able
to
access
space:
places
to
sit
in,
places
to
play
in,
places
to
stroll
in,
and
places
to
spend
a
day
in.

Featured:
James
Hole
–
Social
education:
Chapter
8 of
James
Hole’s
(1860)
“Light,
More
Light!”On
the
present
state
of
education
amongst
the
working
classes
of
Leeds
–
exploring
the
power
of
popular
forms.

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picture
of
Charles
Dickens
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